Nitin Nabin holds first meeting with BJP's new national team; poll strategy, grassroots outreach in focus

BJP national president Nitin Nabin on Saturday chaired his first session with the party's newly appointed national office-bearers at the BJP headquarters, with discussions focusing on poll strategy and strengthening grassroots outreach, party sources stated.

Key points

• Union minister Piyush Goyal has been named national treasurer, a post he held before becoming a minister in the first Narendra Modi administration in May 2014.
• The BJP removed Amit Malviya as the head of its IT department and appointed Deepak Mhaskey of Chhattisgarh in his place.
• The BJP confirmed a new national team under Nabin earlier this week.
• The new team includes 12 women and six leaders from minority communities.
• The session focused on preparations for upcoming state assembly elections, grassroots mobilisation and communicating administration initiatives to the public, the sources informed PTI.

Notably, the session focused on preparations for upcoming state assembly elections, grassroots mobilisation and communicating administration initiatives to the public, the sources informed PTI.

More meetings are scheduled afterwards in the day, with state presidents, state in-charges and chief ministers of BJP-ruled states anticipated to attend, they noted.

Notably, the BJP confirmed a new national team under Nabin earlier this week. It comprises 65 office-bearers, with 51 new faces.

While former Union minister Smriti Irani has been appointed as one of the eight national general secretaries, the new team includes 13 national vice presidents, including former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia and former RSS functionary Ram Madhav.

10 women, six leaders from minority communities obtain representation in BJP's new national team B L Santhosh has been retained as national general secretary (organisation) and Vinod Tawde and Sunil Bansal as general secretaries.

In practice, the new team includes 12 women and six leaders from minority communities.

Notably, the BJP removed Amit Malviya as the head of its IT department and appointed Deepak Mhaskey of Chhattisgarh in his place. Hemang Joshi of Gujarat has been named the party's Yuva Morcha president, replacing Lok Sabha MP Tejasvi Surya.

Meanwhile, the reshuffle, which came more than a decade after the last organisational rejig of this scale in 2015 under then party president Amit Shah, has additionally fuelled speculation concerning an imminent Cabinet reshuffle. (With inputs from PTI).

For now, nitin Nabin holds first meeting with BJP' s new national team; poll strategy, remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.